I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.
I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.
I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.
I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.